Argentina: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 10,119,920 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 23 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 60.664 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 140 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: in 1998 Argentina opened its telecommunications market to competition and foreign investment encouraging the growth of modern telecommunications technology; fiber-optic cable trunk lines are being installed between all major cities; major networks are ent domestic: microwave radio relay, fiber-optic cable, and a domestic satellite system with 40 earth stations serve the trunk network; fixed-line teledensity is increasing gradually and mobile-cellular subscribership is increasing rapidly; broadband Internet services international: country code - 54; landing point for the Atlantis-2, UNISUR, South America-1, and South American Crossing/Latin American Nautilus submarine cable systems that provide links to Europe, Africa, South and Central America, and US; satellite earth stations - 1 (2011) |
| Broadcast media | government owns a TV station and a radio network; more than 2 dozen TV stations and hundreds of privately owned radio stations; high rate of cable TV subscription usage (2007) |
| Internet country code | .ar |
| Internet users | total: 30.142 million percent of population: 69.4% (July 2015 est.) |